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Religion Quotes


"I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting."


"O Lord, I thank you for the gift of life."


"All these stories of Janamsakhi were like an artistic instrument that was yielded more to spread Nanak's spiritual sovereignty as a mystical prophet than as an effective teacher in flesh and blood. In the midst of ignorance and mystical craving, they provided a simple method to guide people, or rather allure them to a newly formed religious path by sermonizing through stories of mystical non-sense."


"There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion."


"The purpose of religion is to enhance love, compassion, kindness, and care.It teaches us forgiveness, humility, tolerance, patience, and to share."


"I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church."


"I can tell you 100 percent Pastor Jones will not burn the Quran tomorrow. There will be no Quran burning."


"Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way."


"Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true."


"A person's affinity towards his or her own religious beliefs, has the same neurological qualities as of his or her emotional affinity towards the romantic partner. In fact the symptoms that follow the early euphoric phase of romantic love are often seen in religious people when their beloved religious faith is challenged."


"The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes."


"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious."


"Perhaps it is true that, by some definitions, Satan is more religious than God. Many of the particularly proud sinners are deceived into thinking that Satan is anti-religious, that he likes seeing people do immoral things simply because he likes immoral things. Doubtful; Satan likes for people to do immoral things so that he can blame them for doing immoral things. The Father of Lies laughs not with his teammates, but at them."


"I bow at His Feet constantly, and pray to Him, the Guru, the True Guru, has shown me the Way."


"He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity."


"Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace."


"With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying."


"Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind."


"The problem with Christianity is more people profess the truth than live it. So much hypocrisy abounds that I can no longer say I count myself among them without being held to the same unachievable standard."


"The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain."


"This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race..."


"I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory."


"Religion is the last refuge of human savagery."


"It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide."


"Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone."


"Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood."


"I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand."


"The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly."


"The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence."


"I believe there is a moral sense and a global ethic that commands attention from people of every religion and every faith, and people of no faith. But I think what's new is that we now have the capacity to communicate instantaneously across frontiers right across the world."


"Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable; the principles of it are troublesome."
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